Russian Canadian

Russian Canadians

Total population
(550,520 (by ancestry, 2011 Census)[1])
Languages
Canadian English · Russian · French
Religion
Christianity (mainly Orthodox) · Judaism · Atheism · Agnosticism
Related ethnic groups
Russian people · Russian American · Canadians

Russian Canadians comprise Canadian citizens of Russian heritage or Russians who emigrated to and reside in Canada. According to the 2011 Census, there were 550,520 Canadians who claimed full or partial Russian ancestry.^[1]

Number of Russian Canadians

Data from this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.^[2]

• Total: 500,605.
• Single response: 98,245.
• Multiple response: 402,360.

Provinces with high Russian Canadian populations

Quebec

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.^[3]

• Total: 40,155
• Single response: 11,935
• Multiple response: 28,220

Montreal (Census Metropolitan Area)

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.^[3]

• Total: 35,800
• Single response: 10,685
• Multiple response: 25,115

Ontario

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.^[3]

• Total: 167,360
• Single response: 39,660
• Multiple response: 127,700

Toronto (Census Metropolitan Area)

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.^[3]

• Total: 102,815
• Single response: 29,695
• Multiple response: 73,120

Alberta

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.^[3]

• Total: 92,020
• Single response: 11,075
• Multiple response: 80,940

British Columbia

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.^[3]

• Total: 114,112
• Single response: 21,740
• Multiple response: 92,365

Many British Columbians of Russian descent are Doukhobors, historically concentrated in the West Kootenay and Boundary Country regions.

List of notable Russian Canadians

^[4]

Arts, entertainment and literature

• A-Trak - musician
• Pamela Anderson - actress
• Harvey Atkin - voice-over actor
• Alex Battler - writer
• Saul Bellow - writer; recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize and the National Medal of Arts
• Arnold Belkin - painter
• Chinawoman - singer
• Ludmilla Chiriaeff - ballet dancer, choreographer and company director
• Melyssa Ford - model and actress
• Victor Garber - actor, Titanic, Argo, Star Trek
• Natalie Glebova - Miss Universe 2005, Miss Universe Canada 2005
• Anais Granofsky - actress, Degrassi Junior High
• Lorne Greene - actor, Battlestar Galactica
• George Grie - artist
• Grimes - Juno Award-winning producer and musician
• Melissa Hayden - ballerina
• Jessica Parker Kennedy - actress, The Secret Circle, Smallville, Black Sails
• K.d. lang - musician, winner of Juno and Grammy
• Ezra Levant - media personality
• Nadia Litz - actress
• George London - singer
• Eli Mandel - poet
• Catherine Manoukian - violinist
• Niall Matter - actor, Eureka, Stargate Atlantis, Melrose Place, 90210
• Sophie Milman - jazz musician
• Zara Nelsova - cellist^[5]
• Sarah Polley - actress and film director, Order of Canada
• Duncan Regehr - writer and actor, Star Trek
• Coco Rocha - fashion model and cover girl
• Sasha Roiz - actor
• Elena Semikina - Miss Universe Canada 2010
• Inga Skaya - Miss Universe Canada 2007
• Socalled - musician
• Ksenia Solo - actress, Black Swan^[6]
• Madeline Sonik - writer
• Jessica Trisko - Miss Earth 2007
• Watts - produced for Method Man, Redman, and Snoop Dogg^[7]
• Adele Wiseman - author

Business and other

• Bluma Appel - philanthropist, recipient of the Order of Canada and Order of Ontario
• John Boyarski - recipient of awards for bravery
• Charles Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
• Samuel Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
• Saidye Rosner Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family, founder of the Seagram Company
• Arcadi Gaydamak - businessman
• Jamie Glazov - managing editor of Frontpage Magazine
• Ben Hatskin - founder of the Winnipeg Jets
• Gregory Lekhtman - inventor of exercise boots
• Luka Magnotta - convicted murderer, harasser and body defiler
• Sonia Scurfield - owner of the Calgary Flames in the 1980s and 1990s
• Alex Shnaider - co-founder of the Midland Group, partner in the Trump International Hotel and Tower (Toronto)

Politics

• Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia - Russian Princess and youngest sister of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
• Alex Atamanenko - Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada
• Vasile Balabanov - Imperial Russian émigré
• Martin Dobkin - mayor of Mississauga
• Catherine Doherty - Imperial Russian émigré, social activist, recipient of the Order of Canada
• Siegfried Enns - member of the Canadian House of Commons
• Lois Hole - Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
• George Ignatieff - Canadian diplomat
• Michael Ignatieff - author, journalist, academic, politician
• Ted Lipman - diplomat, ambassador to North Korea, and South Korea
• Tom Nevakshonoff - Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
• Reynold Rapp - Member of the House of Commons of Canada
• John Tory - mayor of [[Toronto]^[8] ]
• Peter Vasilevich Verigin - Doukhobor leader
• Pyotr Verzilov - activist

Science

• Gregory Chamitoff - NASA astronaut and engineer
• Michel Chossudovsky - writer and professor of economics at the University of Ottawa
• Andrew Donskov - professor of modern languages at the University of Ottawa; world-renowned Leo Tolstoy expert
• Israel Halperin - mathematician
• Martin Kamen - physicist, member of the Manhattan Project (first nuclear bomb); discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14
• Harry Medovy - pediatrician and academic, Order of Canada
• Pierre Milman - mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• Sergei Plekhanov - Professor of Political Science at York University; former Deputy Director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies in Russia
• Louis Slotin - physicist, member of the Manhattan Project (first nuclear bomb)
• George Volkoff, OC, MBE, FRSC - physicist who helped discover the existence of neutron stars

Sports

• Violetta Afanasieva - figure skater
• Nik Antropov - hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) and the KHL
• Ivan Babikov - Olympic cross-country skier
• Patricia Bezzoubenko - rhythmic gymnast
• Boris Blumin - chess grandmaster
• Mark Bluvshtein - chess grandmaster
• Édouard Carpentier - professional wrestler
• Joshua Ho-Sang - hockey player with the OHL
• Igor Ivanov - chess grandmaster
• Lioudmila Kortchguina - marathon runner
• Crazy Leo - rally driver
• Andrei Markov - NHL hockey player
• Olga Ovtchinnikova - Olympic fencer
• Andrei Rogozine - world champion figure skater
• Bobbie Rosenfeld - Olympic gold medalist
• Tamerlan Tagziev - wrestler, gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games
• Igor Tikhomirov - Olympic champion in fencing
• Marina Zoueva - ice dancing coach and choreographer

See also

• European Canadians
• Ukrainian Canadians

References

1. Statistics Canada. "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables". Retrieved 9 April 2014.
2. "2006 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations | Ethnic Origin (247), Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses (3) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data". Statistics Canada. 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
3. Statistics Canada.
4. References for the descent and/or birthplace of each individual can be found in their respective articles.
5. Archived May 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
6. Ksenia Solo - IMDb
7. "Austin "Watts" Garrick [Interview] ·". Hiphopcanada.com. 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
8. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/07/john-tory-jewish-times-israel_n_6122804.html

External links

• Multicultural Canada website - digitized issues of Vestnik (Herald) newspaper, 1941–1993
• Richard A. Pierce - Russians in Canada